On Monday, December 3, 2012 12:08:58 PM UTC+2, Pentcho Valev wrote:> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMJeHpyMMI> > "Length contraction is a second necessary consequence of Einstein's postulate that the speed of light is the same for all observers."> > > > REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM: If the "necessary consequence" generates absurdities, then the postulate is false:> > > > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html> > "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. (...) If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped IN A COMPRESSED STATE inside the barn."> > > > http://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/Revolutions> > Stéphane Durand: "Ainsi, une fusée de 100 m passant à toute vitesse dans un tunnel de 60 m pourrait être entièrement contenue dans ce tunnel pendant une fraction de seconde, durant laquelle il serait possible de fermer des portes aux deux bouts! La fusée est donc réellement plus courte. Pourtant, il n'y a PAS DE COMPRESSION matérielle ou physique de l'engin."> > > > http://www.parabola.unsw.edu.au/vol35_no1/vol35_no1_2.pdf> > "Suppose you want to fit a 20m pole into a 10m barn. (...) Hence in both frames of reference, the pole fits inside the barn (and will presumably shatter when the doors are closed)."> > > > http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html> > "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved."> > > > Pentcho Valev